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Goya, 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.'

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Misread the title of a paper, "The Metabolic Costs of the Brain," as "The Melancholic Costs of the Brain." That would have been interesting.

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If everything looks like a nail, use a hammer, not the flat side but the claw side to pull it out.

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"Unprestateability* suggests that for systems that evolve or self-modify, future states cannot be fully specified based on current conditions alone." *The creation of new conceptual possibilities

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More circular than rectangular

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Another day in paradise.

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"What do a half-man, half-horse archer and a seductive half-fish siren have in common? In medieval art, they engage in an eternal struggle, symbolising the battle between vice and virtue." www.medievalists.net/2024/11/cent...

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Hegel' Holiday - René Magritte "I... thought that Hegel ... would have been very sensitive to this object which has two opposing functions: at the same time not to admit any water (repelling it) and to admit it (containing it). He would have been delighted, I think, or amused (as on a vacation)..."

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What removing large chunks of brain taught me about selfhood "I’ve cut brains in half, excised tumours – even removed entire lobes. The illusion of the self and free will survives it all" #philsky psyche.co/ideas/what-r...

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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

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surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights

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Talented people are at work on an animated film about a famous episode in Wittgenstein's life, which became the basis of 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛'𝑠 𝑃𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑟, & which will be discussed on 2 March. You can attend via Zoom, see details here: tinyurl.com/ysbujp72 geektyrant.com/news/brian-c... #philosophy

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Why Do People Believe Things That Aren't True? www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ps...

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We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!

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'The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get'. G.M.E. Anscombe

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Maybe it's time to revisit the concept of alienation in its broadest sense.

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This Element is free online from 13th February 2025 - 27th February 2025 Dignity and Rights | Ariel Zylberman #philsky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Saying that something is good because it is cool specifies a reason, but it does not justify it.

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Meanwhile...

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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I need carbohydrates to elevate my mood. Cooking linguini alla marinara with shrimps and smoked salmon.

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Christine de Pizan seated at her writing desk with other manuscripts visible which are bound in red. Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 421; Christine de Pizan, Épître d'Othéa; 15th century; France; f.1r

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"ChatGPT: While I do use first-person language, ... I am not conscious of having an identity. The use of "I" and "my" does not imply any self-awareness or personal identity. It’s merely a linguistic tool to facilitate communication." iai.tv/articles/how...

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Matt Smith could play Wittgenstein

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Here we go! The Call for Papers for the XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy is now open! Check the details at sefaweb.es/sefa2025/. Deadline: April 15!

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Worth checking out. Will seem obvious to many, but it’s worth noting when empirical work supports what’s obvious. The results aren’t totally one-sided, but it’s pretty clear what the concern is. www.404media.co/microsoft-st... #AIethics #academicsky #techethics

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Illusionism and a Posteriori Physicalism: No Fact of the Matter #philsky philpapers.org/rec/BROIAA-1...

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They could envision trolley problems, veils of ignorance, beetles in boxes, and the like, but no thought experiment could conceive of this reality. #philsky

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"The philosopher G W F Hegel’s term for this was the ‘negation of the negation’, by which he meant that an opposition often bolsters the opposed thing. The ‘politics of disappointment’ is precisely this: in disappointment, a new opening emerges..." psyche.co/ideas/disapp...

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It has become quite an overwhelmingly busy week. One of those rare times when I wished the week had two more days to finish everything I needed to do.

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So, the 'metaphor' is that values without hard power are empty. Or something like that. But hard power without values are blind, right? 😶 #philsky

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New paper in print! In it I argue against grounding moral concern for others in the "Golden Rule" or "imagining yourself in another's shoes". The ancient Chinese philosopher Mengzi offers a better approach: Extend your concern for nearby others to similar but more distant others. 1/3

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Wow. But isn't moral abolitionism itself a moral stance?

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Still, we don't get stuck in our assumptions because of the distinction fact-value. It happens because we misundertand it by confusing/reducing the is-ought relationship involved between facts nd values. #philsky #ethics Hume and why the fact-value distinction is a disaster iai.tv/articles/for...

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